The object, which measured 115 metres long, 364 metres wide, and 19 metres depth, was subsequently confirmed as the first body to have come from a planetary system beyond our own. Oumaumua, (which ...

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This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

NASA confirms the approach of asteroid 2025 MG1, an airplane-sized space rock traveling at 16,048 miles per hour towards ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MG1 is approaching. The space rock, roughly 130 feet wide, will pass Earth on July 12.

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...